[PHP] Re: Quickly verifying single word.

[Shawn McKenzie <nospam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Shawn McKenzie wrote:
> Tyson Vanover wrote:
> > I need a quick way to make sure that a string is a single word with no 
> > white spaces.  I would prefer that it is a command that could fit on a 
> > single line.  Or at least an if block.
> >
> > I have a few thoughts on this but it involves things like explode(), 
> > stripslashes(), etc.
>
> if (strpos($string, ' ') === false) {
> //may not work for tabs, newlines etc
>     echo 'No spaces!';
> }
>
>
> if (preg_match('/[\s]*/', $string) === false) {
>     echo 'No spaces!';
> }
>
> -Shawn

Second one doesn't work for some reason.  No time now to test, will later.

-Shawn

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